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HENRY O. HAUGHTON, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

IMPROVEMENT INPIERS FOR OCEAN TRAFFIC.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 175,28 1, dated March 28, 1876; application filed September 15, 1875.

To all whom it may-concern Be it known that I, HENRY O. HAUGHTON, of the city of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ocean-Steamship Piers or Docks,v

,tion. F F F represent sliding doors, of which the whole walls, so to speak, of the transit floor and warehouse are composed, thereby providing a direct outlet or entrance at any point that may be required. G represents a bumper on each outer extremity of the side tracks.

Fig. 3 represents a rear end view of the pier or dock, showing D D, railroad-tracks, with cars in position, and A the upper or transit floors, as in Fig. 1. H H represent double lowered tracks running down the center of the floor A, already in use.

Fig. 4 represents a longitudinal section of the pier or dock from apex of roof to Water-- line, A being the extremity of upper or transit floor, as in Fig. 1, with inner double-lowered tracks H H running down the center and stopping at I. B represents the lower or warehouse fioor, as in Fig. 1.

The advantages to be derived from this improvement are as follows: First, the combination of an ocean and coasting pier or dock, Warehouse, railroad, freight, and passenger depot in one, by a method of arrangement affording the shortest possible interval of space and time, and the most economical disposition in the warehousing or transfer from one mode of transportation to the other, as well as a secure place for the safekeeping of merchandise or products, the local or distant destination of which shall not have been determined second, the facilities afforded of unloading, loading, and coalin gsimultaneousl y at the lowest possible cost and labor, and the transferring of through-freight directly from steamer or vessel to car, or vice versa, with expedition.

The dimensions must be varied according to circumstances. It is, however, recommended for ocean purposes that the upper or transit floor be ten feet sixinches above the lower or warehouse floor, thus placing steamers of the description now employed in Atlantic service, as regards their decks, about four feetabox'e the transit-floor when empty, and. the same distance below the same when loaded.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is. y

A pier or dock and storage warehouse, with sliding doors, combined with side railroadtracks, placed substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

HENRY O. HAUGHTON. 

